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The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Surging Celts, Shaky Warriors, and Confounding Lakers With Ryen Russillo and Ethan Sherwood Strauss

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo to discuss the Celtics finding their identity, the Warriors struggling while Draymond Green is injured, the confusing Lakers, a look ahead to some wacky Western Conference playoffs, and more (1:54). Then Ethan Sherwood Strauss joins to discuss how sports agencies have been woven into the fabric of the modern NBA (1:05:39). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Ryen Russillo and Ethan Sherwood Strauss Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up on the BS podcast, we're gonna talk basketball, basketball and more basketball.

0:04.8

And I'm gonna try not to talk about how excited I am about the Celtics. That's my goal for this podcast. It's all next.

0:10.8

We're also about to you by the Ringer podcast network where if you saw the Batman over the weekend,

0:17.1

we have some reaction pods for you. The big picture did a spoiler-free episode.

0:21.9

But then the Ringerverse, with the Midnight Boys, they broke it down.

0:26.1

They broke down all their instant reactions. You can listen to it if you saw the movie, which probably did,

0:30.3

because it made like hundreds of million dollars this weekend.

0:34.0

You could also hear the first Batman movie, the first modern Batman movie.

0:38.4

We're covering on the rewatchables on Monday night. We're doing the 1989 version of Batman,

0:44.9

directed by Tim Burton with Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, and Kim Basinger.

0:49.8

This is where it all began. This is where the comic book boom, it starts. This is ground zero

0:55.6

for everything that would happen with men and suits and action movies and

0:59.6

cajillion dollar movies. It is going to be on Monday night on the rewatchables.

1:03.6

Me, Sean Fennesy, Chris Ryan, Batman. Oh yeah, it's an all Batman week. And by the way,

1:09.2

we had some great Batman pieces on the wringer.com as well, including the 25 Best Villains and all kinds

1:14.2

of stuff. So check that out. As well coming up on this podcast, Ryan Russo is going to join us

1:20.6

as he does every Sunday near the tail end. We're going to have Ethan Sherwood Strauss to talk about

1:25.6

agencies and how they are affecting the NBA product that we watch year to year. It's on next

1:32.9

first of friends from Pearl Jam. All right, taping this at 615, my Wi-Fi tribe stop us,

1:58.6

went out, I'm doing this on my iPhone. I look like I'm filming a hostage video.

2:03.2

Russo is here as he always is on Sunday nights, lots to discuss, including some optimism

2:11.6

for the Boston Southings. It's officially on. All the advanced stats have a drifting Boston's

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